[gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

[Martin Vaeth]

Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o> wrote:
>
> rdepends-add is easy to implement [...] Deletion is trickier [...]
>
> The point is to *not* clean up these entries for months/years.

So, essentially, you want the developer to do part of CVS/git's job,
namely keeping a history of changes in a compressed format,
keeping the history forever (or almost forever).
As mentioned in another post, you highly understimate the
amount of data which would have to be treated this way:
For every python release and many other eclass changes,
almost all packages in the tree are involved, usually
several times a months.